Linguistic Adventurers Mugs

Campaign for Plain English

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Why we need poetry. . .

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

'Just follow these simple instructions.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

'Stick them up...'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'the selling of seashells by the seashore was sluggish.'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

"Wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . ."

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

'That's not what I meant by 'IV'.'

'To them, capital punishment means making them use proper capitalization.'

'Give it to me straight, Doc... is it pronounceable?'

The Oxford Comma Coin

'Now what? Everything I can pronounce is OFF!'

'I don't like to brag, but I'm the guy who coined the phrase, 'Honey, I'm Home'.'

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

"Go on, say it again, 'I love you' in Armadillo."